On 08/05/17 10:57, Simon Ransome wrote:
Hi Steve,
I've had several identical-sounding issues with Seagate 2TB drives, but in my case they all seemed to be related to overheating, with the drive in question always seeming to be significantly hotter than the others when touched. I would quite often find that shutting down for 30 minutes or so "fixed" it, in that it would re-boot fine with only, as you are seeing, the occasional file corruption (which was usually trivially fsck-fixable).
That said, these errors did seem to compound over time until the drive eventually became functionally useless.
Thanks,
I eventually managed to managed to get initiate a smart test on it, and it failed almost immediately. I then found a windows machine and downloaded seagate windows test software onto it. It chugged and whirred away, and then told me it was a bad disk. It offered me the option to fix it. It chugged and whirred for a very very long time, then told me it could not be fixed with this software, and to download Seatools for Dos. I downloaded and installed Seatools for Dos, burned it to a CD and booted, but of course, as a USB device, DOS can't detect it so Seatools for DOS was useless!
I have pretty much given up on it now as a viable disk. I must admit, I was worried about the disk overheating too, so I now have a USB fan that is providing extra cooling for the machine, and where the USB drive used to be.
When I have the time, I will break apart the disk housing and plug it directly into a PC and do some more comprehensive tests on it directly.
In the meantime, I have switched my main daily backup to a Raspberry Pi with an encrypted external USB disk
Steve